Poem: Phantom Limb Pains

Suddenly you've got them, only
Not the usual way, where you

Feel an ache in a lost limb you 
Once had but misplaced, yourself, 

No, you never had these limbs 
But all at once, from thousands 

Of stray memories--a drowsy sort
Of shared, animal memory--you feel

It all, all limbs from all kinds of being
Every gesture ever made in spasm

You become a gnarled tree of phantom
Limbs, then a whole forest, trembling